SuperCorp recently moved its headquarters to Corporateville. The recent surge in the number of homeowners in Corporateville proves that Corporateville is a superior place to live than Middlesburg, the home of SuperCorp's original headquarters. Moreover, Middlesburg is a predominately urban area and according to an employee survey, SuperCorp has determined that its workers prefer to live in an area that is not urban. Finally, Corporateville has lower taxes than Middlesburg, making it not only a safer place to work but also a cheaper one. Therefore, Supercorp clearly made the best decision.
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on the assumptions and what the implications are if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The argument above states several facts upon which it concludes that Corporateville is a better place to live in. However, the facts and evidences provided in the passage are insufficient to corroborate this statement.
SuperCorp states that there has been a recent surge in the number of homeowners and hence Corporateville is a better place to live. However, it has overlooked the cause of this surge. Let us assume a discovery of a coal mine in that area which may have provided jobs to thousands of workers. The workers might have moved into the city with their families to live in cluttered, small-spaced apartments surrounded by strong fumes emitted by the nearby mines. This could account for the increase in homeowners, yet does not make Corporateville a better place to live in.
In addition, one of the concluding factors for SuperCorp has been a survey which was conducted among its employees. It concludes that their employees do not like to live in an urban environment. However, it may not be true that after moving to Corporateville, they will like the environment of that town. The employees simply might not have explored any place apart from their hometown of Middlesburg and might want a bucolic exposure. However, after moving to Corporateville, they may not appreciate the underdeveloped transportation system and the lack of malls, amusement parks and other facilities commonly available in an urban environment. If a similar survey is to be conducted in Middlesburg after a few years, the employees might still be unsatisfied with their iving conditions.
Moreover, the passage states that Corporateville has lower taxes making it cheaper to live in. However, the cost of living in that town might be more than Middlesburg. Corporateville could be isolated making transportation of vegetables and other food items costly, hence increasing the overall cost of the products. The lower taxes does not imply that the cost of living will be low as well!
In summary, the stated facts are insufficient to conclude that Corporateville is better that Middlesburg and sufficient evidences are required to fortify the conclusion of the argument.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- not OK. This survey is only about workers where to live, not about where to work.
argument 3 -- OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 350 350
No. of Characters: 1772 1500
No. of Different Words: 162 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.325 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.063 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.037 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 113 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 89 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 70 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 54 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.444 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.08 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.778 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.326 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.556 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.054 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
hence, however, if, look, may, moreover, so, still, well, apart from, in addition, in summary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 55.5748502994 97% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1821.0 2260.96107784 81% => OK
No of words: 350.0 441.139720559 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.20285714286 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32530772707 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.11968732081 2.78398813304 112% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 204.123752495 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.482857142857 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 578.7 705.55239521 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.6955436516 57.8364921388 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.117647059 119.503703932 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5882352941 23.324526521 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.47058823529 5.70786347227 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.22580820006 0.218282227539 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0764136251336 0.0743258471296 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0940261685379 0.0701772020484 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.118528157654 0.128457276422 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.054082449856 0.0628817314937 86% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.3799401198 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.3550499002 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.88 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.33 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 98.500998004 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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